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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DE is generally regarded as a way to inflate HS grades. They aren’t as hard or rigorous as AP classes/curriculum but they get the bump in GPA. This is because they are still taught by HS teachers (as are the AP courses but the AP courses follow a curriculum and have the accountability and measure of an exam). This is how my kids who took AP courses explained it to me. The “gen Ed” track kids boost their GPAs this way but generally lacked rigor in their transcript.

There are exceptions, I suppose, for novelty classes. But most of the “advanced” courses the selective university will want students to take from them anyway and won’t be impressed by someone taking a substandard offering in HS.

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Ok, but as I said in my OP - this is an online class taken at a local community college. So it will be a regular professor and work will be done in my kid’s free time. There is no GPA bump to take a DE class at my kid’s school.

Many students do this at my kid’s school to differentiate themselves from classmates. It is not in place of any AP class.  
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